Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced their exit from the ECOWAS bloc, dealing a blow to the vision of regional integration and cooperation.
PREMIUM TIMES believes that the message in all of this for ECOWAS is: good governance and an economy that works for all are the guardrails of any democracy.In the years leading to independence for most African states, there was the geopolitical cleavage having various countries with the radically-minded pan-Africanists dubbed the Casablanca bloc up against the conservative, pro-Western, Monrovia bloc.
The 1975 formation of the(ECOWAS) put paid to that gulf in the West African sub-region, when 15 countries sought to forge a common identity around questions of citizenship, governance, regional security and integration, economic issues, the environment, natural resources, and development, as well as issues of higher education and employment. That vision suffered its severest blow recently when on 25 January when Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger announced their exit from the 15-member bloc “without delay.” They described the action as their “sovereign decisio
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